gnome-terminal-3.8.4

Introduction to GNOME Terminal

The GNOME Terminal package contains the terminal emulator for GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Terminal Dependencies

Required

DConf-0.16.1, gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.8.2, VTE-0.34.7, and yelp-xsl-3.8.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-terminal

Installation of GNOME Terminal

Install GNOME Terminal by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr             \
            --disable-static          \
            --disable-migration       \
            --with-nautilus-extension \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/gnome-terminal &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-nautilus-extension: This switch enables building of the Nautilus extension. Remove it if you don't have Nautilus installed.

--disable-migration: This switch disables building of the GNOME Terminal GConf migration tool which is not necessary for BLFS.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Contents

Installed Program: gnome-terminal
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/gnome-terminal and /usr/share/help/*/gnome-terminal

Short Descriptions

gnome-terminal

is the GNOME Terminal Emulator.

Last updated on 2013-09-04 14:37:09 -0700